Chapter 62: The Winter Solstice Holy Day

In the dark night sky, the stars are scattered everywhere like sesame seeds, and the silver-white heavenly river comes from the northwest direction, crosses the middle heaven, and dumps obliquely in the southeast land!

The dog looked at this scene curiously, his heart moved, his feet left the ground, and when he looked back, he didn't know when a pair of eagle wings had grown on his back.

Taking advantage of a gust of wind, the wings were gently spread, and the body had already flown into the sky, and there was nothing to play in the dark and black, so the dog controlled its wings to fly towards the shining stars!

The closer it gets, the more the water flows, and the dazzling stars are actually piled up with silver ingots, and the dog pounces directly, and I don't know where to pick up a handful of hemp bags, and put them in one by one.

Below the silver is a thick layer of copper coins, Huang Cancan's face is reflected in the dog's face, a heartbeat flew out, holding a large handful of silver ingots happily jumping on the money stack, jumping!

Suddenly, a loud shout came into my ears, and I quickly turned my head to see that a corpse covered in blood was carrying a grinning head and shouting loudly to the dog, 'Give me back my life, give me back my life!' ’

The frightened dog hurriedly ran away with the sack on his back, never thinking that the silver was too much and he couldn't lift it up with a lot of effort, so he had to grit his teeth and give up, thinking that he was unwilling to attach himself and grab the largest silver ingot and run away.

Running all the way to death, I don't know what's going on, the harder I run, the closer I get to the headless corpse, seeing that it is going to slowly fall into the palm of his hand, the anxious dog directly smashed the silver ingots in his hand, only to hear a clang, the dog opened his eyes.

The headless corpse is gone, the silver ingots are gone, the stars are gone, and only two big faces full of stubble are left, and the four little brain melons on the side are smiling and looking at themselves.

The dog sighed and said to the left: "Master Liu, have you caught it?" ”

Liu Tou said: "I was tied to prison last night!" ”

The dog nodded, smacked his mouth, and asked the person on the right, "Brother Zhao, did you put the anesthetic?" ”

Zhao Zhutou nodded and said, "It's me." ”

The dog sighed and said, "If you put too much, it will be bitter to drink!" ”

Zhao Zhutou hurriedly replied in a low voice: "I'll put less next time!" ”

The dog pouted and said, "Fortunately, I met a stupid man, otherwise the kid's life would have been confessed!" ”

The big fool on the side laughed and said, "Brother Lang, how do you know that there is medicine in the wine?" ”

The dog rolled his eyes and said: "Liu Sanlang's three words are written all over the cardboard box, how can I not see it if I am not blind!" ”

After saying this, I wanted to sit up straight, but my head suddenly ached, and the sequelae of the hangover were revealed.

Holding his head for a while, he felt a lot better, and when he looked up, he saw the dog smiling and handing over a bowl of gruel, I haven't seen him so sensible for a long time, and the happy dog praised him a few times.

After a bowl of porridge and washing my face with cold water, the feeling of dizziness subsided.

After receiving a bowl of hot water, he sat by the stove, turned his head to the two who were drinking tea, and said, "What are these people coming from?" It's so lively! ”

Zhao Zhutou on the side shook his head and said: "This group of people are bandits who went up the mountain and fell into the grass, saying that they received a reward from a nobleman, and they wanted to come to our county prison to kill a prisoner, who exactly did they kill?" What is the name of the nobleman? The only living mouth is just a small minion and I don't know, Liu Sanlang was still interrogating when I came out in the morning, and I don't know why. ”

The dog nodded, thinking to himself, it is estimated that the prisoner has the handle of the nobleman in his hand, and provoked the nobleman to hire a murderer, as long as the matter of killing and killing does not implicate himself, he immediately pulled the conversation and said: "Master Liu, why are you here, shouldn't you be bad today?" ”

Liu Tou smiled and said: "Dang, but it's not as fortunate as a few days ago, with them taking care of it, I found time to come and see you monkey!" ”

The dog smiled sweetly back.

A group of people chatted a few more times, and the dog suddenly remembered that it was the Winter Solstice Holy Day in a few days, so he turned his head to a few people and asked, "This is about to be a holiday, what is there to do in the city?" ”

Liu Tou shook his head and said, "It's nothing fun, I'm busy worshipping my ancestors, and I don't have any heart to play." ”

The winter solstice, the twenty-second node in the twenty-four solar terms, is a traditional festival of Chinese folk, and the winter solstice is one of the four seasons and eight festivals, which is regarded as a big festival in winter.

The feudal thinking of the ancients is more serious, they believe that the winter solstice is the weakest day of the year, the reason is that the day is much shorter than before, according to the concept of "yin and yang decline", the missing hours are borrowed by deceased relatives, so on this day, the children of the descendants have to sacrifice to their ancestors.

When the emperor will be even busier, leading the princes and grandchildren to sacrifice their ancestors, and leading groups of ministers to the suburbs to hold a ceremony to worship the sky.

On this day, not only the court will have a holiday to rest, but the army will also stop repairing, retreat, business and travel will be suspended, and the big guys will happily have a "quiet body" festival while worshipping their ancestors.

Chinese festivals are generally summarized into three things, family and friends gather, sacrifice ancestors, and eat!

What is there to eat on the winter solstice? There must be people who mention eating dumplings, and when it comes to eating dumplings, then we must talk about a bull fork character, who wrote a famous book called "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", also known as "Treatise on Typhoid Fever".

As soon as this book came out, it was canonized, and some people said that typhoid fever is not just a cold, just take two cold capsules, and even don't need to take any medicine, and it can be good to resist for a week.

Now I'm going to popularize what this typhoid thing is?

In the "Fifty-Eight Difficulties", it is said: "There are five types of typhoid fever, there is stroke, there is typhoid fever, there is dampness and temperature, there is fever, and there is temperature disease."

Therefore, it is a comprehensive disease, and in ancient times, the poor and swishing had no medical treatment, and they wanted nutrition without nutrition, and if they were not careful, they would explode into a major labor disease. The general treatment of epidemic diseases by the local government yamen is to encircle them and fend for themselves, or burn them to the ground, whether it is a person or a thing.

Article 3 of the Treatise on Typhoid Fever: "A person who is sick with the sun, or who has a fever or has no fever, will have chills, body aches, vomiting, and the pulse is tight, and the pulse is tight, is called typhoid fever."

Article 35 of the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever": "Sun disease, headache and fever, body pain, low back pain, bone joint pain, and wheezing without sweating from the bad wind, ephedra soup is the master."

Seeing this, some people know who this great god is, yes, he is Zhang Zhongjing, who is known as the medical saint by later generations, a famous medical scientist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, who wrote a lot of prescriptions in his life.

And the matter of eating dumplings is not forgetting his grace of "dispelling cold and delicate ear soup". To put it simply, it is to wrap the dough in various medicinal herbs, so that the big guy can cook and eat, which is both full and cures.

Dumplings were called "Jiao'er" in the Song Dynasty and "Bian Shi" in the Yuan Dynasty, with different names but the same appearance, and the same way of eating, mixed in a bowl and eaten with soup, or taken out of the plate and eaten separately.

In some places, on the day of the winter solstice, friends and relatives gather to eat a meal of "dog meat".

This custom is said to have started in the Han Dynasty, according to legend, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, ate the dog meat boiled by Fan Hao on the day of the winter solstice, felt that the taste was particularly delicious, full of praise, the folk people have followed suit and formed the habit of eating dog meat on the winter solstice, and because the upper class people at that time liked to eat mutton, so some people changed to eat mutton pot, not only dumplings, dog meat pot mutton pot, on the day of the winter solstice, a big meal is also to pray for a good situation in the coming year.

Seeing that everyone's mood was a little low, the dog hurriedly said: "Master Liu, the miscellaneous drama performed yesterday was really wonderful, where did you invite the two of you?" ”

Time is like flowing water, five days have passed unconsciously, and I still think of the five bloody corpses next to the old jujube tree, and I have been awakened by the shadow of Wang Daya asking for my life many times in the middle of the night, in short, the dog has not been very happy these days.

Finally waited for the day of the winter solstice, the dog went to the grass market early, looked around and bought a lot of incense, candles, paper money, with a bamboo basket to carry it, shouted Dasha and the dog left three people bowed their heads and walked out of the city.

The depressed mood was also transmitted to the two of them, and looking at the things in the back basket, even Liu Dasha, a fool, understood what to do.

When there is something in my heart, the pace is much faster.

After more than an hour's journey, I arrived at a place that has always haunted me in the past few days.

In the devastated Liujia Village, after several months of precipitation, the unpleasant smell of fireworks has been dissipated. In a remote and cold place, a few burnt logs accompanied by the unmelted snow made the dog's heart beat immediately.

I can't bear to look at it anymore, and I don't dare to think about it.

With their heads bowed, they walked quickly, and when they reached an open and desolate place, the three of them stopped.

Looking up, a handful of piles of graves made of loess stretched from the front of your feet to the big willow tree a hundred meters away.

This cemetery is buried with all the dead men and women in Liujia Village, except for a few who are still alive, everyone else sleeps quietly inside.

He took off the basket and took out two small piles of paper money, incense, candles, and some offerings and distributed them to them, and the dog took a deep breath and walked to the tomb where the stone monument was standing.

"Daddy, mother, the dog has come to see you, the dog is doing well, he can eat a full stomach every day, and there is meat to eat! I also made friends with several nobles in the yamen, they care about the dog, often help me, anyway, I live well, dog, dog...... Woo woo. Dad, Mom, the dog misses you! Woowoo woo ......"

Thousands of words have all turned into tears, and all kinds of thoughts are not worth seeing each other once, but they are ruthlessly separated by yin and yang, and they can't in the end.

Lying on the grave with his whole body, crying in a sparse manner, tears flowed from his nose and mouth, and the depression when he came came completely volatilized, and this painful crying took half an hour to end.

The snot and tears mixed with the dust made the dog a big face, and he didn't care to wipe it clean, so he got up and left the grave, and knelt down in front of the stele again, which cost the dog a lot of money to build.

For the inscription on the topic, the dog is begging grandpa to tell grandma, and it took a long time to find an old master who wrote the inscription.

Daddy has read a book all his life, and he should be worthy of an inscription, even if it is only a few words.

The incense candle paper money turned into green smoke and flew up the blue sky, looking at the white clouds in the sky, the dog sincerely hoped that it could convey its thoughts to his father.

Watching the fire slowly extinguish, I opened a bottle of soju, every time I drink, my father will get drunk, and my mother always complains, and now that I have become a god, it is estimated that the amount of alcohol will increase greatly! A bottle of soju was spilled in half, corked and put it in the back basket, and took out a few snacks, the bottom was a small bag of salt-baked soybeans, Daddy's favorite.

After the offerings were served, the fire that burned the paper money was just burned out, and the clothes were straightened, and the back was straight on both knees, once, twice, three times!